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APRIL 1, 2025

Do You Have Legal and Financial Documents in Order? Its critical to know if your parents have legal documents such as a will, power of attorney, and healthcare proxy. These documents protect their rights and ensure their decisions are honored. Do they have long-term care insurance?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

They have an advanced directive that specifies the type of they would care they would like to receive in a very specific situation, but not the situation at hand. But like, if you look at a surrogate document, it walks you through step by step, the hierarchy of decision makers, but also, like, how that surrogate should be making decisions.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Certainly SOME of those avoided hospitalizations, CPR, and ICU stays were due to documentation of those orders in the POLST. Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back Karl Steinberg, he’s a palliative care doc and a geriatrician. Because we haven’t done our job to document the value of what we’re doing.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

And yet, I think for everyone who’s elderly, which is anyone who’s my age or older, I would say it’s very important and ought to be part of an annual exam that we ought to be asking that, and documenting it in the chart. I think Bob also noted documenting it. Eric: Anybody else’s thoughts on that?

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Palliative care Geriatrics Palliate Document 173